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Taylis

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About Me

For more information about me, go to my personal site at http://www.angelfire.com/cantina/thedemesne (MySpace doesn't seem to allow links to Angelfire from the profile page, but will from my blog here. Go figure).

My Interests

Well, if one couldn't guess, MUSIC is a pretty big one for me.

I enjoy some movies, as listed below....

Books and writing are pretty big things...


Heck, outside of the stuff listed below, there's really not a whole heck of a lot left to me, outside of my wife and children....

I'd like to meet:

People with a good taste in music (you can determine what I mean for that by looking at the Music section to the left or by visiting the page for my former webradio station ), and a willingness to debate when they disagree with me - not argue, but debate. There is a distinct line between debate and arguing and too many people get it confused. I may not always see eye-to-eye with you, but I'm willing to let you have your position. Just let me have mine.


Music:

Major acts (alphabetical): The Alarm, The Beatles, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Garbage, Information Society, M:G, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Pet Shop Boys, Queen, Rockell, Seal, The Smashing Pumpkins, Yazoo

Independent acts (alphabetical): The 4 Of Us, Black Happy, bloodWIRE, Brand New Day, Color Theory, The Dignity Of Labour, The Echoing Green, EuroVision, Glow, Hungry Lucy, Intuition, Iris, Neuropa, Shoveljerk, SubAudeo

Much more that I'm too tired to think of at the moment.

Electronic music in it's myriad forms, but a good deal of rock, pop, and other styles...

Movies:

An eclectic mix of things... sci-fi, fantasy, action, comedy... but the list of titles can be somewhat bizarre. From the expected (Star Wars, Matrix, Lord Of The Rings, Monty Python) to the less expected (Space Battleship Yamato films, Metropolis (the 1920's silent film), Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey) to the relatively obscure (Shock Treatment (the sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show) for one).... Someday I'll work up a more comprehensive list....

Television:


I know I have one of these, I just bought a new one a few weeks ago, but I don't use it much myself. Sad, kinda, when you realize I studied radio & TELEVISION for my minor in college...

Books:

As an unpublished writer, I could go on for days here... but a few of the important ones:

David Eddings - The Belgariad & The Malloreon series' (The Elenium & The Tamuli are pretty good too, but I was severely disappointed with The Dreamers) Stephen R. Donaldson - The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever & The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series' (never read his sci-fi set The Gap or whatever it was called - might give it a shot sometime) Raymond E. Feist - The Riftwar Saga (and the spin-off series') Robert Asprin - The Myth Adventures of Aahz & Skeeve (or whatever the exact title of the series is - the one that starts with Another Fine Myth and ends (at least, the last one I've gotten so far) with Something M.Y.T.H. Inc.) Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series Robert Jordan - The Wheel Of Time series (my brother got me hooked on this one) J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter series (okay, okay, I know, it's crassly commercial to admit to liking it these days, but it's still enjoyable reading)
and lastly for now,
John D. Fitzgerald - The Great Brain series (yes, a children's series, but something I really loved as a boy and have recently re-read and enjoyed just as much)

Heroes:


I have quite a few people I have tremendous respect for, but I'm not sure I'd call any of them "heroes". "Hero" is a rather... loaded word, if I can say so. It connotates something that I'm afraid few, if any, of us are ever capable of living up to. We're all human, for crying out loud, and so often people that are looked at as heroes are treated as being more than human. So, do I have heroes? No, not really. But I have people I respect. And that's good enough for me.

My Blog

Depeche Mode Playlists - Part 11 of 11

Well, we finally have arrived at the final playlist post in the series of Depeche Mode playlists. Playing The Angel is the most recent full length studio album by Depeche Mode, and here we're also ad...
Posted by Taylis on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:54:00 PST

Depeche Mode Playlists - Part 10 of 11!!!!

Yes, that's right. Three weeks after the demise of the laptop, I'm finally back to the point of posting the Depeche Mode playlists. For anyone joining us late, a brief recap of what's going on. Abou...
Posted by Taylis on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:52:00 PST

Almost ready for the return...

Well, I'm almost ready for the return of the Depeche Mode playlists.  I've got all the files on the laptop that I need, and I've re-assembled the playlists for Speak & Spell through Ultra.&nb...
Posted by Taylis on Fri, 30 May 2008 06:58:00 PST

Another brief update...

I was hoping to have the Depeche Mode albums finished ripping by this point tonight, and just be working at transferring files to the flash drive to move over to the laptop.  However, technology ...
Posted by Taylis on Thu, 29 May 2008 08:49:00 PST

We’re getting closer...

I started ripping my Depeche Mode albums tonight.  The singles are all ripped already (it has to do with how we have our CDs stored, but most of the singles we own are not filed with the albums w...
Posted by Taylis on Wed, 28 May 2008 10:33:00 PST

Playlist Recovery Status Update

As anyone who has been following my blog here knows, I've recently had my laptop computer crash (big time) and I lost the entire music library that I had ripped to that machine.  I've been workin...
Posted by Taylis on Wed, 21 May 2008 08:44:00 PST

For those of you keeping an eye out...

Just a quick update for anyone that's wondering when I'll get back to posting the Depeche Mode playlists. As previously noted, my laptop crashed. And it crashed hard. I lost everything on it - incl...
Posted by Taylis on Fri, 16 May 2008 11:38:00 PST

Depeche Mode playlists delayed until further notice...

For anyone who has been following the Depeche Mode playlists I've been posting here, you know that I'm not quite finished with the project yet.  However, due to a problem that has arisen with my ...
Posted by Taylis on Sat, 10 May 2008 02:59:00 PST

Depeche Mode Playlists - Part 9 of 11

Today we have the first post-Alan Wilder album from Depeche Mode, Ultra. This was the only Depeche Mode album that I was on Bong when the album launched - having come in at the end of the Songs Of Fa...
Posted by Taylis on Sat, 10 May 2008 07:58:00 PST

Depeche Mode Playlists - Part 8 of 11

After the mass commercial success of Violator, there was a bit of a break before Depeche Mode put out their follow-up album. The set that finally came out was not what a lot of people were expecting ...
Posted by Taylis on Fri, 09 May 2008 07:42:00 PST